Questions tagged [chat]
Real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
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How can I see room guidelines?
From Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines I understand that the room guidelines are displayed when somebody enters the room for the first time.
For my own room, I have easy access to ...
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Would it be possible to have chat rooms natively show your inbox and reputation changes?
I have a handy script that, among other things, shows me my inbox and reputation changes in chat in real-time. It's nice to not have to open a new tab to a main site to check that stuff.
The script ...
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Let Room Owners delete bookmarked conversations
Not all conversations are worthy of being bookmarked. In the Stack Exchange Lobby, there are several that serve pretty much no purpose whatsoever, and are nothing but clutter. However, I can't clean ...
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All users on Stack Exchange can now participate in chat
Effective today, January 29, 2026, all users on Stack Exchange can now participate in public chat rooms, regardless of reputation. Formerly, users with less than 20 reputation were only able to access ...
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Wrong error message when failing to upload a picture to chat
The standard message for failing to upload a picture to chat:
"Failed to upload image, please try again!"
And I try... OMG do I try! I try all the time.
But as it turns out, if the image ...
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Can't set custom kick times on mobile chat
It's now possible to set custom kick-mute times network-wide. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on mobile; when testing, it skipped the custom time pop-up and automatically kicks the user for the ...
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Link to cookie settings and related popups in system language on chat page
I noticed that on the chat list page https://chat.stackexchange.com/ the link to the cookie settings is displayed in system language:
Russian
Spanish
Portuguese
Japanese
Seems that this list is ...
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Rethinking comments vs chat: add chat frame to posts
Comments have always had a fundamental design issue because:
People are compelled to leave noisy discussion-like comments, because they have something to say about the post. Comments tend to fill ...
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404 error when clicking new "report user to Community Team" link on chat profiles on Stack Exchange chat
It seems like a new "report user to Community Team" link has been added to the "moderation tools" menu on all non-moderator chat profiles in the Stack Exchange chat server.
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Add 'Load to Last Message' button to mobile chat
On mobile chat, if you scroll to the top of the screen, there’s no Load to Last Message button like there is on desktop.
This button is really useful for highly active rooms. Could mobile chat get ...
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503 error on all three chat servers
Whenever I try to use chat (any of the servers), I get a 503 error. I tried to refresh it, and failed. I don't see anything suggesting it's down, and I'm not banned/suspended, so I'm confused. Does ...
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Fixed font messages only partially visible in chat transcript
Since some time (at least several weeks), long fixed-font chat messages are only partially visible in the chat transcript, the button to show the full message seems to have gone missing.
Take for ...
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Starred rooms missing the 'star' toggle on chat rooms from the profile page
Credit to Mithical in chat for the bug report.
On the profile page (like https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/525173) where it shows a list of rooms you're currently in, it used to give the option to ...
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Creating a chatroom throws an unexpected "unexpected error" error
After just having been made moderator on GenAI, I figured I'd create a chatroom for my colleagues and myself, in order to exchange tips on how to maliciously wield our hammers and keep them in good ...
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Bug prevents moving comments to chat [duplicate]
For at least a few days, I have noticed a bug appear when I try to move comments to chat. It looks a bit like this:
It shows up when I click the highlighted hyperlink to "automatically move this ...
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